A&R

topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes

Startups For the Rest of Us How I Built This

2 statements about A&R, every show

Simon Cowell claims many music industry A&R executives are genuinely tone-deaf.

“You know, I don't think anyone even today is really trained to be an A&R person. I don't even know how people today, you know, get that job, because a lot of the A&R people I knew were genuinely tone deaf. Seriously.”

Simon Cowell Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 11:19 Simon Cowell: Music Mogul

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Disclosure

Walling initially envisioned TinySeed as a spare-time retirement project

“Do you know Tiny C is my retirement project, right? That's what, that's why I told A&R when we were talking about it, I was like, yeah, I could do this thing just in my spare time.”

Rob Walling Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 35:43 Episode 588 | In Which Courtland Allen and I Cover a Lot of Startups Topics

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